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Top 50

By: Loverof​LeCinem​a

The 50 movies that mean most to me as a film fan and a human being. (no order)


The Godfather Part II (1974, Francis Ford Coppola)


2001: A Space Odyssey (1968, Stanley Kubrick)


Happiness (1998, Todd Solondz)


La Dolce Vita (1960, Federico Fellini)


Casablanca (1942, Michael Curtiz)


Taxi Driver (1976, Martin Scorsese)


Pulp Fiction (1994, Quentin Tarantino)


The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007, Andrew Dominik)


Ran (1985, Akira Kurosawa)


Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989, Woody Allen)


Apocalypse Now (1979, Francis Ford Coppola)


The Godfather (1972, Francis Ford Coppola)


Drive (2011, Nicolas Winding Refn)


The Tree of Life (2011, Terrence Malick)


The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966, Sergio Leone)


A Streetcar Named Desire (1951, Elia Kazan)


Naked (1993, Mike Leigh)


L’Avventura (1960, Michelangelo Antonioni)


Scenes From a Marriage: Theatrical Cut (1973, Ingmar Bergman)


City Lights (1931, Charlie Chaplin)


Tokyo Story (1953, Yasujiro Ozu)


Magnolia (1999, P.T Anderson)


Goodfellas (1990, Martin Scorsese)


A Clockwork Orange (1971, Stanley Kubrick)


Boogie Nights (1997, P.T Anderson)


Sansho the Bailiff (1954, Kenji Mizoguchi)


There Will Be Blood (2007, P.T Anderson)


Three Colors: Red (1994, Krzysztof Kieślowski)


Grizzly Man (2005, Werner Herzog)


Fanny and Alexander: The Theatrical Cut (1982, Ingmar Bergman)


Blue Velvet (1986, David Lynch)


Irreversible (2002, Gaspar Noe)


Persona (1966, Ingmar Bergman)


Dr. Strangelove (1964, Stanley Kubrick)


Chinatown (1974, Roman Polanski)


Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980, Irvin Kershner)


Spirited Away (2001, Hayao Miyazaki)


Vertigo (1958, Alfred Hitchcock)


Raging Bull (1980, Martin Scorsese)


Nashville (1975, Robert Altman)


Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004, Michel Gondry)


Reservoir Dogs (1991, Quentin Tarantino)


Inglorious Basterds (2009, Quentin Tarantino)


Amores Perros (2000, Alejandro Gonzalez Innaritu)


Children of Men (2006, Alfonso Cuaron)


Citizen Kane (1941, Orson Welles)


Satantango (1994, Bela Tarr)


The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger)


Landscape in the Mist (1988, Theodoros Angelopoulos)


The Master (2012, Paul Thomas Anderson)

 

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Graeme Higginson

26Apr13

A very tight list, save for certain titles on which I'm in personal disagreement. These differences in taste could be called contrarian, in any case, and they are very few. Ultimately, this seems like a prime launchpad for anyone with the intention of taking cinema seriously.

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    LoverofLeCinema

    1May13

    Thank you good sir. On which ones do you and I disagree?

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    Graeme Higginson

    2May13

    Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, which I quite dislike compared to most folks. I'd say it missed its hurdle, while the general consensus is that it hit a major home run. My feelings are slightly similar for Goodfellas and Rebel without a Cause, which never rubbed me right despite my broad support for most of the people involved.

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    LoverofLeCinema

    2May13

    Eternal Sunshine is, for me, what I love about the emotional journey a film can take you on. It just really clicked with me the whole way through. I think behind the first two Godfather films Goodfellas is the best of all crime movies, and Rebel without a Cause is mostly on the list for what James Deen achieves in his performance.

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joey Noodles

7Mar13

You say 'no particular order', but do you have a favourite, and if you don't, I'm saying you have to pick one!

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    LoverofLeCinema

    8Mar13

    Haha, it is awfully strange how difficult I must be with that question. I suppose the point of this list is that any of the 50 listed films could very well be my favorite. So you can take any one of these and say "LoverofLecinema's favorite film is (insert title)" and I won't object. I'll toss ya Pulp Fiction because it is the one I most recently watched.

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    joey Noodles

    8Mar13

    fair enough :)

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Harry Rossi

19Nov12

This is list is goddamn amazing.

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joey Noodles

16Nov12

I was personally highly disappointed by 'The Tree of Life', me and my Dad decided after maybe 5 minutes of shots of volcanoes and space that we would call it a day. Maybe I will try again one day.

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